Background
Molloy, Sylvia was born on August 29, 1938 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Came to the United States 1967. Daughter of Herbert Edward and Margarita Berta (Chasseing) Molloy.
(A study of Spanish American autobiography from the post-c...)
A study of Spanish American autobiography from the post-colonial nineteenth century to the present day.
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(This study of Spanish American autobiography from its beg...)
This study of Spanish American autobiography from its beginnings in the post-colonial nineteenth century to the present day concentrates mainly on cultural and historical issues. Spanish American autobiographies are fascinating hybrids, often wielding several discourses at once. They aspire to documentary status while unabashedly exalting the self, and dwell on personal experience while purporting to be exercises in historiography, the founding texts of a national archive. Professor Molloy examines a wide range of texts, from Sarmiento's Recuerdos de provincia to Victoria Ocampo's Autobiografia. She analyses their textual strategies, the generic affiliations they claim, their relationship to the European canon and their dialogue with precursor texts, as well as their problematic use of memory and the ideological implications of their repressive tactics. This method enables her to identify perceptions of self and tensions between self and other, thus shedding light on the fluctuating place of the subject within a community.
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(Esperando en su habitacion, una mujer comienza a evocar, ...)
Esperando en su habitacion, una mujer comienza a evocar, mediante la escritura, una historia de amor que la ha dejado marcada profundamente. Quiere escribirla para conjurarla, para que sea, esta vez, tal y como la anora, lejos del gran dolor que le causo. Recuerda a Vera, por quien experimento los celos, el odio y el deseo, la necesidad de venganza... Espera a Renata -antigua amante de Vera-, de quien se enamora, con quien inicia una nueva historia. Con este punto de partida, Sylvia Molloy emprende una aguda e intensa exploracion del deseo, la memoria, la identidad sexual y el abandono. Una gran novela en la cual la escritura se transforma en la busqueda del yo en toda su diversidad, un terreno donde se comunican el placer y el dolor, de manera vivida y cautivadora.
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writer Latin American literature educator
Molloy, Sylvia was born on August 29, 1938 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Came to the United States 1967. Daughter of Herbert Edward and Margarita Berta (Chasseing) Molloy.
Licence es Lettres, University Paris, 1960. Diplome D'Etudes Superieures, University Paris, 1961. Doctorat de University Paris, University Paris, 1967.
Assistant professor Spanish, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1967-1969; assistant professor Spanish, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1969-1970; assistant professor Spanish, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1970-1973; associate professor, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1973-1981; Emory L. Ford professor, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1981-1986; professor Spanish, Yale University, New Haven, 1986-1990; ALbert Schweitzer professor of Humanities, New York University, since 1990.
(This study of Spanish American autobiography from its beg...)
(This study of Spanish American autobiography from its beg...)
(Esperando en su habitacion, una mujer comienza a evocar, ...)
(A study of Spanish American autobiography from the post-c...)
Member Modern Language Association (president), Asociacion Internacional de Hispanistas, Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana.